Corticotropin-releasing factor (CRF) over-expression down-regulates hippocampal dopamine receptor protein expression and CREB activation in mice

Neuroendocrinology Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 193-198

  Kasahara, Maki ^a   Groenink, Lucianne ^b,c   Olivier, Berend ^b,c,d   Sarnyai, Zoltán ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER UTRECHT   (Netherlands)

^d YALE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Corticotropin releasing factor; CREB; Dopamine receptors; ERK; Hippocampus; Stress; Transgenic mice

Indexed keywords

CORTICOTROPIN RELEASING FACTOR; CYCLIC AMP RESPONSIVE ELEMENT BINDING PROTEIN BINDING PROTEIN; DOPAMINE 1 RECEPTOR; DOPAMINE 2 RECEPTOR; MITOGEN ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE;

ANIMAL CELL; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ANIMAL MODEL; ANIMAL TISSUE; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOWN REGULATION; HABITUATION; HIPPOCAMPUS; MOOD DISORDER; MOTIVATION; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; PERINATAL PERIOD; PROTEIN EXPRESSION; PROTEIN PHOSPHORYLATION; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION;

EID: 80051633806     PISSN: 0172780X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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